Rangers called upon their captain to dig them out of a Livingston-shaped hole on the opening day of league action, winning 2-1 at the Tony Macaroni Arena.
The Lions got ahead after five minutes when new Ibrox signing John Souttar got caught on the wrong side of his man and unfortunately for him, that man was Joel Nouble, who expertly lobbed a shot into the net. They took a lead into half-time and still were ahead after an hour.
Scott Arfield rose from the bench to head home and restore parity but it was James Tavernier again who proved a match-winner for boss Giovanni van Bronckhorst. He curled in a free-kick from an angle at distance to spark bedlam in a packed away end, just 60 seconds after his teammate had equalised. It puts Rangers on maximum points after one match and here are three things we learned from the outing.
